Summary

This data collection contains 262 comparable variables from
AMERICANS VIEW THEIR MENTAL HEALTH, 1957 (ICPSR 3503) and AMERICANS
VIEW THEIR MENTAL HEALTH, 1976 (ICPSR 7948). Investigators were
interested in determining whether the 1957 descriptive findings
remained stable or had changed by 1976, and whether relationships
established between sex, age, education, marital status, well-being,
role experience, problems, and methods of dealing with stress were
replicated or altered in the 1976 results. Variables focus on various
areas in which problems might arise, including marriage, parenthood,
employment, and general social relationships. Information about
leisure time, past and present physical and mental health, and motives
for affiliation, achievement, and power were also sought.

Data Source

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1984-06-29

Version Date

2005-11-04

Version History

1984-06-29 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

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